Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.
The Persistence Infrastructure team develops and operates Discord’s real-time datastore systems that serve the data of Discord's 150M+ monthly active users—including over a trillion messages! We work across multiple systems areas: databases, disk storage and Rust-based data access services. We're a small team whose work has a huge impact on our company's success and ability to grow!
Some posts about our work:
- How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
- How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low-Latency
What you'll do
- Building and operating large-scale, reliable and performant systems with Rust, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and Linux.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop primitives that provide compounding leverage for Discord engineering by reliably storing and serving user data while protecting the safety of our user data.
- Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users.
- Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
What you should have
- 2+ years of experience building backend systems and infrastructure
- Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
- Experience with distributed and high-availability databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.
- Knowledge of operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control
- Comfortable working in fast paced environments.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Cassandra or Scylla
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with Linux internals
- Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.
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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000 to $175,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
Check out our inclusion, diversity and purpose efforts, company principles, or learn more about the Life @ Discord experience!
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